Tag: Jewish

Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought


Free Download David Patterson, "Hebrew Language and Jewish Thought"
English | 2005 | pages: 253 | ISBN: 0415346975 | PDF | 1,0 mb
Drawing on more than three hundred Hebrew roots, the author shows that Jewish thought employs Hebrew concepts and categories that are altogether distinct from those that characterize the Western speculative tradition. Among the key categories that shape Jewish thought are holiness, divinity, humanity, prayer, responsibility, exile, dwelling, gratitude, and language itself.

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Jewish Self-Hate


Free Download Theodor Lessing, "Jewish Self-Hate"
English | ISBN: 1789209927 | 2021 | 186 pages | PDF | 755 KB
A seminal text in Jewish thought accessible to English readers for the first time.

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Proust, a Jewish Way


Free Download Proust, a Jewish Way (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) by Antoine Compagnon, translated by Jody Gladding
English | November 12, 2024 | ISBN: 0231211341, 023121135X | True EPUB | 312 pages | 46.8 MB
Marcel Proust once wrote, "There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave." Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight into the great author’s underappreciated Jewish side.

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Kabbalah Jewish Mystical Tradition


Free Download Kabbalah: Jewish Mystical Tradition: The Tree of Life with Sephiroth, Tzimtzum, & Four Worlds and Their Connections to Kabbalistic Astrology, Angels and… by Diohka Aesden
English | November 27, 2023 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0CP3NZW81 | 517 pages | EPUB | 56 Mb
KABBALAH: JEWISH MYSTICAL TRADITION.

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Being Jewish in the New Germany


Free Download Jeffrey Peck, "Being Jewish in the New Germany"
English | 2005 | pages: 238 | ISBN: 0813537231, 0813542065 | PDF | 0,6 mb
Germany today boasts the fastest growing population of Jews in Europe. The streets of Berlin abound with signs of a revival of Jewish culture, ranging from bagel shops to the sight of worshipers leaving synagogue on Saturday. With the new energy infused by Jewish immigration from Russia and changes in immigration and naturalization laws in general, Jeffrey M. Peck argues that we must now begin considering how Jews live in Germany rather than merely asking why they would choose to do so.

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